Submer and ACES have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to accelerate the rollout of high-density, AI-ready data centres in Saudi Arabia. The collaboration integrates Submer’s liquid cooling technology with ACES’s local infrastructure expertise to meet the demands of Vision 2030.
Under the agreement, the two companies will jointly pursue projects that serve the growing demands of AI and high-performance computing workloads. Submer contributes engineering and technology spanning the full project lifecycle, while ACES contributes local delivery, infrastructure services and investment.
The scope covers advisory and consultancy for facility planning; the design and build of new and retrofit sites; IT integration across compute, networking and monitoring systems; thermal and power systems, including advanced liquid and immersion cooling; and potential co-investment in Saudi data center capacity.
As the Kingdom pursues its Vision 2030 digital and AI agenda, rising rack densities are reshaping requirements for power, cooling, facility design and IT integration. Between them, the two partners aim to take customers from early planning through deployment and long-term operation.
“The Kingdom’s AI ambitions are moving faster than the infrastructure models supporting them,” said Khalid Aljamed, General Manager for the Middle East, Turkey and Africa at Submer. “Rack densities are pushing conventional design to its limits, and customers are too often left coordinating separate parties for engineering, construction, integration and financing. Working with ACES, we can strip out much of that overhead and hand over facilities engineered for dense AI workloads from day one.”
“This agreement brings together exactly what building AI infrastructure here demands,” said Dr. Akram Aburas, Group CEO of ACES. “Submer offers deep engineering and technology across the project lifecycle; ACES offers proven execution on the ground, market presence and investment strength. Together we can add AI-ready capacity and help Saudi Arabia’s wider digital infrastructure ecosystem keep growing.”
